Minutes/Action items of "Instrumentation-Systems-SDA" monthly meeting
October 3, 2007
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Present: 
J. Annala, M. Convery, C. Gattuso, I. Kourbanis, A. Lumpkin,
C. McClure, T. Meyer, V. Papadimitriou, J. Patrick, S. Pruss, 
D. Slimmer, R. Thurman-Keup, A. Tollestrup, D. Voy, M. Wendt, 
J. Zagel


We discussed the following:
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1) Main Injector FW measurement of beam sent back
from the Tevatron during reverse injection cycles  
Jim Zagel

2) Flying Wire RFT status
Craig McClure

3) Status of Longitudinal emittance algorithm updates for MI.
How will we commission the new algorithm?
Alvin Tollestrup - Part I
Randy Thurman-Keup - Part II 

4) Updated bunch by bunch emittance and intensity tables
Timofei Bolshakov, Vaia Papadimitriou


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Conclusions-Action Items:


1) It looks like we will be able to perform regularly and reliably the 
measurement of beam sent back from the Tevatron during reverse injection
cycles with the MI flying wires after some changes in the triggering of 
Fly spec 24 and determination of some needed delays. Some of the needed
information will be obtained during commissioning in a couple of weeks.


2) VME RFT status:

a) The socketed hysteresis setting resistors in the VRFTs will be soldered 
instead, to minimize erratic behavior. To start with, this will be done in 
the VRFT of MI FW system. 

b) There is a new VRFT design which is expected to have broader functionality.
The lack of VRFT spares for our current system will be addressed by expediting 
the new VRFT design to include the current functionality only for some of the
modules to be produced.

 
3) It looks like we are on track on having available an improved Main Injector
longitudinal emittance algorithm (similar to the Tevatron algorithm) by the end 
of the shutdown. this will provide a 95% longitudinal emittance for MI.
We will still start up with the old system which will make scope data available
as well to the new system so that we can perform comparisons of the two systems
with the same data. When the commissioning is complete, we will switch to the
new system.

4) There are updated bunch by bunch emittance and intensity tables available
from the SDA page (http://www-bd.fnal.gov/SDA_Viewer/bunch_by_bunch_catalog.jsp).
These tables can be built at will but they will start being built automatically 
as we get new stores. HTML, excel and stucture versions are available.
We encourage the Systems groups to start using these tables and give us feedback.


Our next meeting is scheduled for November 7, 2007.